Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President plans to have the Federal Trade Commission immediately investigate the rising cost of gasoline. The President has been told that the law of supply and demand is responsible for the recent rise. While in his opinion an investigation is not likely to reduce prices to any great extent, he thinks that it may have the effect of stabilizing them...
...Adopted a resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate increased prices for gasoline...
...After women won the vote in the United States, the Woman's Party preferred to work for a Federal amendment to give equal rights under the law to women with men. The Consumers' League and the Women's Trade Union League protested and the Federation of Labor sided with them. If such an amendment to the constitution became effective it would either take away from women the protective legislation they have secured or bring men under the same laws. The women workers have no such organization as the men and need protection...
...League of Women Voters indorses the industrial program of the Women's Trade Union League and the Consumers' League, and is opposed to the amendment sponsored by the National Woman's Party...
...entire cost to her father was only $100. At 22 she was Superintendent of schools at Mason City, Iowa. At 25 she married a struggling country editor, Leo Chapman, and worked with him until his death less than two years later. At 30 she was soliciting advertisements for a trade paper in San Francisco. At 31 she married George W. Catt (who died 15 years later), and most of her work on behalf of women dates from her second marriage. In 1900 she succeeded Susan B. Anthony as President of the American Woman Suffrage Association and labored untiringly...